Ever since she found out her True-Name, she’s been overly cocky and thinks that she is “wonderful in every way!” *sigh*, I wonder will we ever have our funny, little Valkyrie again? The one we saw in the first trilogy. Skulduggery is his charming self and his young sidekick Valkyrie is still too ‘queen of the world’. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, back to the actual review And there, I sat on my couch, just staring at it. Excitement ran through my blood, and when I returned to my car I utterly ‘fangirled’. My heart filled with joy when my eyes first laid on it. The day when I got the call – a call I was waiting for months - saying KOTW had arrived. Not once was I tempted by the evil spoilers, no matter how loud their cry was. And when I went to the desk, asking was my order of KOTW in they said no.
The day before the offical release, I was in the bookstore and right in front of me a guy held KOTW in his hands. I can’t read a Kindle (for some strange reason, my eyes get sore). The Australians and New Zealanders got it first. Since the beginning of summer, I’ve waited for this book. Occasionally he talks to real people, but only when he absolutely has to. He is also far too modest to mention things like the first book being a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year, but would like to extend an invitation to Oprah to pop around one day for tea, in thanks for selecting his book for the Oprah’s Book Club Kids Reading List.ĭerek plays too many video games, reads too many comics, and watches too many movies. He doesn’t like to brag about all the awards he’s won, such as the Irish Book of the Decade, or the Red House in the UK, or all the other awards that he humbly displays on his mantelpiece. Landy himself was nominated for an IFTA for Best Script. In addition to the bestselling children's/YA series of Skulduggery Pleasant books, a supernatural mystery series starring Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton detective, and Valkyrie Cain, a young female magician, he has written two screenplays that have been made into films: the IFTA award winning "Dead Bodies" and the IFTA nominated "Boy Eats Girl". Derek Landy is an Irish writer and screenwriter.
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